became good soldiers when they recognised the advantages of freedom. The advantage to be derived from freedom is one of the hardest things it is possible to explain to the ordinary negro slave.

His powers of reasoning never seem to get beyond this: “ If I am free and don't get work, who is going to feed me ? Whereas, if I have a master, he has to find me work, and when there is no work he has still to feed me.” On crossing the Sankuru we marched through a deserted district for five days, in which it was very difficult to feed the caravan. As we had, however, been forewarned, the men, and the women who accompanied them, had as much food with them as they could carry, and we got through the desert in comparative comfort, arriving at Mono Kialo's village on the 1st of September.